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In the late 1950s George Bornemissza, suggested that foreign dung beetles could usefully be imported into Australia and led the subsequent research program at the Division of Entomology in Canberra.
CSIRAC was constructed by the Division of Radiophysics to the designs of Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard.
Without spoken commentary, this film depicts both the life of the soil and the life within it.
In 1951 Ian joined the CSIRO Wool Textile Research Research Laboratory, Biochemistry Unit under the Officer-in-Charge, Dr F G Lennox and remained there until his retirement from Officer-in-Charge in 1989.
